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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • meesy7@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "messy scott" <meesy8@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:11:44 +0200
Subject: Business proposal


Messy Scott.
Villa 149 Sicap
Diuppel Dakar
Senegal.
BP 264 Liberte Dakar.

Hello.

I got your online contact while searching for a sincere and honest person as
a business partner in the site,and i decided to forward this mail to you
knowing that my insinct has lead me the rigth way. My name is Miss Messy
Scott of liberia nationality.I have some amount of $6,000,000 dollars (Six
million USA dollars)to invest in your country,depending on your advice on
the type of investment that will be recommended profitable to invest there
on my arrival in your country and that is why i am in search of a
trustworthy and reliable foreign partner who will help me to invest and
manage the money properly in his country, hence i decided to contact you on
this.I will be sending you my photo when i hear back from you. I am waiting
for your earnest
response.Email:meesy7@yahoo.com<http://us.mc371.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=meesy7@yahoo.com>

Warm regards
Messy Scott

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